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'Tis the Season to Learn: Holiday Resources
posted by: Ruthie | December 07, 2012, 10:17 PM   


With the holidays just around the corner, there is no better time to bring an added dose of cheer to your classroom. The helpful resources below provide many creative ideas for integrating the holidays into learning.


General Resources:

Teacher Holiday Guide - This teacher guide will help you engage your students in learning about Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and other holidays around the world.

The Holiday Zone - This website provides free resources for teachers in all subject areas.

Holiday Giving Not Getting
- This site gives ideas to keep the classroom emphasis on charity and benevolence, not consumerism.

 

Math Resources:


Decorate a Tree - Students can solve subtraction problems in this math printable. It's also a great resource for decorating a tree. (Grades 1-4)

Mrs. Claus Helps Santa Get Ready
- Students will have fun using a graph to help them reproduce a picture of Santa and Mrs. Claus. (Grades 2-5)

Reading and Language Arts:

A Holiday from the Past - Have your students use the interview questions to talk to a relative about a holiday that they remember celebrating in the past. This is a great way for children to better understand holidays and to relate with other generations. (Grades 3-5)

A Holiday from Another Culture - Use these questions to help your students interview someone from another culture about a holiday that they have celebrated. (Grades 3-6)

Synonym Bells - Use this vocabulary activity to help build skills in understanding synonyms. This is a fun Christmas printable to enjoy in language arts class. (Grades 2-3)

A Christmas Carol - After reading Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, these handouts provide reading comprehension activities for students. (Grades 9-12)

History and Social Studies:

History of Antebellum Christmas - Focusing on holiday celebrations between 1830 and 1860, this site examines the growth of the Christmas holiday as we know it, examining those traditions that have continued into the 20th Century and those that are but a memory. (Grades 7 - 9)

Christmas Around the World
- Use this site for background information on designing a multi-cultural Christmas celebration in your classroom. (Grades 4-8)


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